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Coaching Conundrum
Mike Garrett scours the world for a new football coach, but Columnist Tim Crockett has found him already / 4
S INC!- 1012
mill TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
December 6, 2000
Of interest...
Last chance to see how the Reality Check freshman are surviving their first semester / 7
News Digest 2 Calendar 2
Opinions 4 Lifestyle 7
The Buzz 7 Classifieds 12
Crossword 13 Sports 16
vol. CXXXXI, no. 66 www.usc.edu/dt
Painting heaven
Recycling sought on
options
campus
Michael Buckner I Daily Trojan
Poster magic. Shaun Kettington, a sophomore majoring in fine arts, paints a work of art for his project in the Watt Hall sculpture yard.
Senate: Organization looks into adding more bins and offering plans for some living in university housing
By SCOTT MARTINDALE &
LOREN CHIDONI
Contributing Writers
Facilities Management Services informed Student Senate Tuesday of significant improvements in USC’s waste management program and said that a recycling program may return to residence halls as early as next semester.
Residence halls do not have recycling programs because of trash shoots and safety and rodent problems, said Betty Davis, manager of waste management and fleet services. It is a safety problem because recycling bins cannot be left in the hallways for custodians to empty, she said, and students cannot separate their trash if they send it down a trash shoot. Davis said she hopes there will be a recycling program in the residence halls by January.
"It (recycling in the residence halls) has been tried in the past and we are working to try and get it going again,” Davis said.
USC Housing would also like to implement a pilot program in certain residence halls and apartments where student are paid to collect the recycling and transport the waste to a recycling plant, said University Residential Student Community President Pradeep Prasad, a senior majoring in biology and English. Prasad said URSC hopes to start the program next semester, but is still looking for students willing to collect and transport the recycled waste.
Facilities Management’s goal is to divert 60 percent of USC’s total waste — which amounts to 4.4 pounds of trash per person each day
— away from landfills by next year.
“The key issue is getting it out of landfills," said Henry Lacher, director of buildings and grounds. “We reached our goal one year ahead of schedule."
Assembly Bill 939 states that USC must divert at least 50 percent of its waste from the landfills, Lacher said. As of September, Facilities Management was diverting 49.2 percent of its trash from these landfills, down from a 100 percent diversion.
Although Facilities Management currently sends waste to waste-to-energy plants, Lacher said they would like to send it to a facility that would sort recyclables and send less waste to the landfills. This is more expensive, but it would be worth it in the long run, Lacher added.
Thirty-four-and-a-half percent of the total waste is sent to a waste-to-energy plant, where the trash is burned and used to generate energy that Southern California Edison purchases, Lacher said. He also said that the electricity generated is enough for 20,000 households and that the energy generation process is cleaner than gas, oil or coal.
Scrubbers and lined bag houses trap the ashes generated from the furnace, Lacher said, making it possible to remove the metal from the ashes for recycling. The ash is then combined with cement
“The ash is used to make roadbed, so there is 99.99 percent total use,” Lacher said.
However, burning trash is more expensive than sending it to a landfill, Lacher said. "The cost is $33 a ton (to waste-to-energy plants) versus $17 a ton to landfills,” he said.
The capacity of these plants limits the amount of waste that it burns. Lacher said.
Trash also consists of other components. Four-hundred-and-seven-ty-three tons or 9.3 percent of waste is recycled as mixed paper, Lacher I see Senate, page 11 I
"It (rccyding in the residence halls) has been tried in the past and we are working to try and get it going again —♦— BETTY DAVIS, manager waste management and fleet services
LAPD takes over the investigation of stolen UCLA band equipment
Crime: DPS has found no leads in the case of the stolen instruments
By ROBB FERRIS
Contributing Writer
The Department of Public Safety remains stalled in the investigation of the theft of UCLA's band's instruments and has turned it over to the Los Angeles Police Department, said DPS Chief Steven Ward.
“We’re basically stuck," Ward said. “All we have is a description of a person wearing a jacket with lots of pins on it. And it just so happens that every band member in his or her third year receives a jacket, and most of them put pins on their
jackets.”
Members of the Spirit of Troy marching band have been suspected in the theft of the more than $30,000 worth of band equipment, which was taken around the time of the annual Blood Bowl football game between the two bands. Since then, little information has been available to DPS, bringing the investigation to a halt.
“We have interviewed scores of band members, but haven't really interviewed anyone for weeks." Ward said.
The instruments were left in a parking lot in front of an apartment complex where several band members currently live.
“The people who stole the instruments were either members
of the band or people who knew a lot about the way the band works, where they live and what they wear,” Ward said.
The USC marching band is not the only group suspected in the theft of the instruments. Ward also indicated that there is evidence suggesting the crime could have been associated with a fraternity, though he did not comment on a particular fraternity.
“One of the first things we did once we had knowledge of the crime was to send several cars to the Row, just to look for anything out of the ordinary," he said. “It’s a lot of equipment for even several people to carry unnoticed.”
Ward also said that despite the anti-Semitic slur written on the sax-
ophone case of UCLA band member Robbie Hurwitz, the theft is not hate-related.
“This theft is not a hate crime," he said. “These instruments were likely not stolen because someone on the UCLA band is Jewish. This is about the rivalry between two schools. We never actually saw the saxophone case, and that issue is something relegated to the jurisdiction of Student Affairs. So, it's really hard for us to do anything about that in particular.”
Ward defended the active role DPS and USC has played in the investigation of the theft.
"However you describe it, there is some sort of bond between USC and UCLA.” he said. “We have responsibility to try to maintain
that relationship. We would like to clear this up as soon as possible and reestablish the balance between the two schools.”
Ward suggests that the case has been particularly difficult to solve due to the early involvement of the media.
“The thing that changed it was the media,” Ward said. “There were TV news crews on hand before we could even finish our report. In the rivalry between the two schools, more serious things have happened in the past. In this case, the stakes were raised a lot higher because such a big deal was being made out of it That probably scared a lot of people out of coming forward with the information we needed. Perhaps if this were kept more private, people would be less intimidated.”

Coaching Conundrum
Mike Garrett scours the world for a new football coach, but Columnist Tim Crockett has found him already / 4
S INC!- 1012
mill TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
December 6, 2000
Of interest...
Last chance to see how the Reality Check freshman are surviving their first semester / 7
News Digest 2 Calendar 2
Opinions 4 Lifestyle 7
The Buzz 7 Classifieds 12
Crossword 13 Sports 16
vol. CXXXXI, no. 66 www.usc.edu/dt
Painting heaven
Recycling sought on
options
campus
Michael Buckner I Daily Trojan
Poster magic. Shaun Kettington, a sophomore majoring in fine arts, paints a work of art for his project in the Watt Hall sculpture yard.
Senate: Organization looks into adding more bins and offering plans for some living in university housing
By SCOTT MARTINDALE &
LOREN CHIDONI
Contributing Writers
Facilities Management Services informed Student Senate Tuesday of significant improvements in USC’s waste management program and said that a recycling program may return to residence halls as early as next semester.
Residence halls do not have recycling programs because of trash shoots and safety and rodent problems, said Betty Davis, manager of waste management and fleet services. It is a safety problem because recycling bins cannot be left in the hallways for custodians to empty, she said, and students cannot separate their trash if they send it down a trash shoot. Davis said she hopes there will be a recycling program in the residence halls by January.
"It (recycling in the residence halls) has been tried in the past and we are working to try and get it going again,” Davis said.
USC Housing would also like to implement a pilot program in certain residence halls and apartments where student are paid to collect the recycling and transport the waste to a recycling plant, said University Residential Student Community President Pradeep Prasad, a senior majoring in biology and English. Prasad said URSC hopes to start the program next semester, but is still looking for students willing to collect and transport the recycled waste.
Facilities Management’s goal is to divert 60 percent of USC’s total waste — which amounts to 4.4 pounds of trash per person each day
— away from landfills by next year.
“The key issue is getting it out of landfills," said Henry Lacher, director of buildings and grounds. “We reached our goal one year ahead of schedule."
Assembly Bill 939 states that USC must divert at least 50 percent of its waste from the landfills, Lacher said. As of September, Facilities Management was diverting 49.2 percent of its trash from these landfills, down from a 100 percent diversion.
Although Facilities Management currently sends waste to waste-to-energy plants, Lacher said they would like to send it to a facility that would sort recyclables and send less waste to the landfills. This is more expensive, but it would be worth it in the long run, Lacher added.
Thirty-four-and-a-half percent of the total waste is sent to a waste-to-energy plant, where the trash is burned and used to generate energy that Southern California Edison purchases, Lacher said. He also said that the electricity generated is enough for 20,000 households and that the energy generation process is cleaner than gas, oil or coal.
Scrubbers and lined bag houses trap the ashes generated from the furnace, Lacher said, making it possible to remove the metal from the ashes for recycling. The ash is then combined with cement
“The ash is used to make roadbed, so there is 99.99 percent total use,” Lacher said.
However, burning trash is more expensive than sending it to a landfill, Lacher said. "The cost is $33 a ton (to waste-to-energy plants) versus $17 a ton to landfills,” he said.
The capacity of these plants limits the amount of waste that it burns. Lacher said.
Trash also consists of other components. Four-hundred-and-seven-ty-three tons or 9.3 percent of waste is recycled as mixed paper, Lacher I see Senate, page 11 I
"It (rccyding in the residence halls) has been tried in the past and we are working to try and get it going again —♦— BETTY DAVIS, manager waste management and fleet services
LAPD takes over the investigation of stolen UCLA band equipment
Crime: DPS has found no leads in the case of the stolen instruments
By ROBB FERRIS
Contributing Writer
The Department of Public Safety remains stalled in the investigation of the theft of UCLA's band's instruments and has turned it over to the Los Angeles Police Department, said DPS Chief Steven Ward.
“We’re basically stuck," Ward said. “All we have is a description of a person wearing a jacket with lots of pins on it. And it just so happens that every band member in his or her third year receives a jacket, and most of them put pins on their
jackets.”
Members of the Spirit of Troy marching band have been suspected in the theft of the more than $30,000 worth of band equipment, which was taken around the time of the annual Blood Bowl football game between the two bands. Since then, little information has been available to DPS, bringing the investigation to a halt.
“We have interviewed scores of band members, but haven't really interviewed anyone for weeks." Ward said.
The instruments were left in a parking lot in front of an apartment complex where several band members currently live.
“The people who stole the instruments were either members
of the band or people who knew a lot about the way the band works, where they live and what they wear,” Ward said.
The USC marching band is not the only group suspected in the theft of the instruments. Ward also indicated that there is evidence suggesting the crime could have been associated with a fraternity, though he did not comment on a particular fraternity.
“One of the first things we did once we had knowledge of the crime was to send several cars to the Row, just to look for anything out of the ordinary," he said. “It’s a lot of equipment for even several people to carry unnoticed.”
Ward also said that despite the anti-Semitic slur written on the sax-
ophone case of UCLA band member Robbie Hurwitz, the theft is not hate-related.
“This theft is not a hate crime," he said. “These instruments were likely not stolen because someone on the UCLA band is Jewish. This is about the rivalry between two schools. We never actually saw the saxophone case, and that issue is something relegated to the jurisdiction of Student Affairs. So, it's really hard for us to do anything about that in particular.”
Ward defended the active role DPS and USC has played in the investigation of the theft.
"However you describe it, there is some sort of bond between USC and UCLA.” he said. “We have responsibility to try to maintain
that relationship. We would like to clear this up as soon as possible and reestablish the balance between the two schools.”
Ward suggests that the case has been particularly difficult to solve due to the early involvement of the media.
“The thing that changed it was the media,” Ward said. “There were TV news crews on hand before we could even finish our report. In the rivalry between the two schools, more serious things have happened in the past. In this case, the stakes were raised a lot higher because such a big deal was being made out of it That probably scared a lot of people out of coming forward with the information we needed. Perhaps if this were kept more private, people would be less intimidated.”